Why do we need SharePoint hosting? How we can use SharePoint 2013 in our company to solve business problems? What problems could be resolved by using a SharePoint platform? Numerous articles, blog posts, and the popularity of queries over the Internet show the importance of these questions for many successful companies. Let’s try to bring light on some of these questions in this blog post.

SharePoint hosting 2013. How can we use SharePoint 2013 for business.

Every company or organization have staff who usually work with a number of business documents using office applications as well as communicate with other departments. And usually they run into a variety of difficulties such as:

Documents could be lost or confidentiality could be compromised.

Employees spend a lot of time on search and sorting papers. There is wasted time and money on making duplicate copies.

The document approval process needs to be managed properly.

Normally employees collaborate and communicate with each other and other departments to request the necessary documents by walking from office to office across the building, or search numerous email messages.

All these problems can be described by a famous quote of Robert Townsend “All organizations are at least 50 percent waste – waste people, waste effort, waste space, and waste time”.

Taking a look at the difficulties in the work described above, I would answer that a solution is to use a unified system which will store all the necessary content and documents in a single source, organize the work for all your departments, and provide mobility. SharePoint 2013 certainly is such unified system with a lot of benefits.

Benefits of SharePoint hosting services:

SharePoint site – control the flow of documents in your company, keep them in a single SharePoint storage place, and eliminate the duplication of documents;

SharePoint approval process – simplify the process of document approval; get the opportunity for managers to approve documents regardless of the time of day and geographic location.

Benefits of SharePoint hosting services for team work:

SharePoint project management – create a separate project area for each new project where the project team will be able to store all project materials;

SharePoint permissions – define the permissions of users, so only members of the project team can view information about the project and therefore insure project security;

SharePoint discussions – place a SharePoint Discussion Board on the project’s main page where team members will be able to discuss problems, solutions and new ideas in one visible place.

Benefits of SharePoint hosting services in business process automation:

detailed and understandable business process plan for employees;

transparency of business processes: the employee team can determine all steps of the business processes and how they are engaged in their creation;

more efficient use of time;

monitor project goals on the basis of reports;

business processes analytics can provide SharePoint reports to determine when projects are put on hold, document the issues, and aid in addressing the associated road blocks.

As you can see the SharePoint hosting service could make your life easier and improve your company’s business. Using SharePoint 2013 social features you can easily create forums and communities based on your employees’ job roles. I`m sure that your employees are not IT guys, but they are familiar with Microsoft office software. As such you should keep in mind that the great SharePoint 2013 advantage is integration with Microsoft office applications and its simplicity.

SharePoint hosting service will help you reduce operating costs and move to a new level of collaboration by sharing documents. Using SharePoint 2013 improves efficiency of workflows and employee performance. Do not waste time on tasks that can be done faster and more efficiently by using SharePoint 2013. “If you don’t do it excellently, don’t do it at all. Because if it’s not excellent, it won’t be profitable or fun, and if you’re not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?” (Robert Townsend).

Start with the PlexHosted SharePoint hosting today and improve your business tomorrow!

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Are you looking for a trustworthy and cost effective SharePoint Hosting 2013 Provider? Do you want a SharePoint site that does not lose your business data? Please read the following SharePoint hosting provider overview and so you can choose the best SharePoint hosting provider.

Considerations when choosing a SharePoint Hosting Provider

How to choose a qualified SharePoint Hosting provider?

Company owners and other decision makers can choose among several alternative SharePoint services that will be best for their company and provide the best return on investment. Here’s what to consider when choosing SharePoint for your business:

SharePoint Edition – First of all, you need to select the SharePoint version (2010 or 2013) you need and what feature edition, Foundation, Standard or Enterprise, has the most relevant features for you. Take a look at PlexHosted’s feature comparison page and see what features are best for your company and employees. This will help to determine what SharePoint edition works best for you.

SharePoint Storage and Users – How much storage is required for your site and how many users will be using it? Determine how many employees will need access to your site, and for what purposes it will used. This will help you to decide whether you need 500 Mb for simple document repository, or several GB for pictures, videos, forms, records, databases, and workbooks. Note that for a large storage requirement (from 100 GB) it may be more convenient and cost effective to setup a dedicated server. In addition PlexHosted has no user limits, so you can have 1, 2 or any other number of SharePoint users with the ability to increase/decrease the number of users and/or amount of storage at any time.

SharePoint Internet or Intranet site – Will you need to open your site to the public by enabling Anonymous access? The license for this feature is costly for Standard and Enterprise editions, so you should pay attention to this requirement. When choosing the proper SharePoint edition, SharePoint feature set and anonymous access are important to think about.

So now you know three main options that will assist you in choosing the best SharePoint hosting provider. Not all SharePoint hosting providers offer all SharePoint hosting plans with all the necessary features. It might be good for them, but will probably not work for you. PlexHosted offers four different SharePoint hosting plans: Foundation, Standard, Enterprise and Enterprise with PowerPivot which should meet your requirements. PlexHosted also offers multi-tenant hosting as well as dedicated servers for SharePoint hosting.

How to make sure you have chosen the best SharePoint hosting company with SharePoint experts?

The following guidelines will help you make sure you are working with SharePoint experts.

SharePoint support should be available 24/7/365 to help you resolve any issues or clarify configuration options.

99.99% availability for SharePoint servers.

No hidden fees for SharePoint hosting services and support, and no hidden SharePoint limits.

After answering these questions and putting together the necessary information, you will know what is needed for your business and find a perfect solution for you. But, if you still have questions, you are always free to ask PlexHosted’s SharePoint experts for their help. Since PlexHosted meets all these requirements you can be assured that you will be working with SharePoint experts.

Start with the PlexHosted SharePoint hosting today and improve your business tomorrow!

Hello readers,
Need to learn about SharePoint licensing for a new project? Want to know how to pay the minimum price for the best SharePoint hosting? You are at the right place. In today’s post I`ll tell you about SharePoint hosting plans and SharePoint 2013 licensing.

SharePoint 2013 hosting plans

There are different SharePoint hosting environments, dedicated and multi-tenant and three SharePoint editions. All this can confuse end users which have not worked with SharePoint before. At first look, SharePoint licensing seems difficult to understand. But if we take a look at it more deeply you will learn that SharePoint licensing is pretty easy to understand.

SharePoint 2013 CALs Licensing

PlexHosted offers SharePoint in three editions: Foundation, Standard, and Enterprise. The main difference between editions is in the various SharePoint features (see SharePoint Features Comparison) and pricing for the Client Access Licenses (CALs). SharePoint Enterprise edition offers an additional capability for Business Intelligence (PowerPivot Workbooks Hosting). In general, all SharePoint sites are licensed using a CAL model – CALs are required for each user accessing a SharePoint site. Let’s take a look at SharePoint 2013 hosting plans offered by PlexHosted.

SharePoint 2013 Foundation CALs – you can have an unlimited number of users without paying for CALs, so you pay only for the SharePoint site storage. More details are at PlexHosted SharePoint 2013 Foundation

The other point to keep in mind is the pricing for SharePoint CALs is the same for multi-tenant and dedicated environments.

SharePoint Hosting Environment Licensing

Multi-tenant SharePoint Hosting Environment – With multi-tenant SharePoint hosting you get access to the SharePoint site collection level without having to pay separately for SharePoint/SQL licenses and servers. It`s really great to have a SharePoint site and pay only for the site size and CALs

Dedicated SharePoint Hosting Environment – With dedicated SharePoint hosting you get root access to all servers in your SharePoint farm as well as complete access to SharePoint Central Administration. In this case the price for dedicated hosting includes all the necessary licenses and pricing for CALs (for the specified number of users), servers, and SharePoint/SQL licenses. Alternatively you can supply your own Microsoft licenses under Microsoft’s License Mobility plan

As I promised SharePoint 2013 licensing is pretty easy to understanding. So, now you know the difference between all SharePoint editions and environments. Hope my post is helpful and can help you to make a right choice in SharePoint 2013 hosting.

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Dear reader,
In this post we will talk about the SharePoint hosting. You should be happy to know that PlexHosted offers the best price for hosted SharePoint 2013. As always, you can learn about PlexHosted new prices New SharePoint Hosting 2013 plans or, firstly, learn about main changes in SharePoint hosting plans and after that review them.

Hosted SharePoint site

A hosted SharePoint site delivers to end users the powerful features of SharePoint. If you choose a multi-tenant environment of PlexHosted SharePoint hosting, you can avoid the associated overhead of managing the SharePoint infrastructure yourself. This solution eliminates the need for IT staff to monitor and manage SharePoint servers. Flexible management options of SharePoint hosting ensure that you can get the SharePoint site control you need to meet all requirements of your business.

New SharePoint Hosting plans from PlexHosted

So, you want to know about main changes in SharePoint Hosting plans from PlexHosted. The one main change from old SharePoint hosting plans to new SharePoint hosting plans is that the price for SharePoint 2013 hosting has been lowered! This change has been applied for multi-tenant SharePoint hosting as well as dedicated SharePoint hosting.

SharePoint Hosting environments: Multi-Tenant and Dedicated

Multi-tenant SharePoint Hosting Environment

With multi-tenant hosting solutions you can get access to the SharePoint site collection level without having to pay for a dedicated SharePoint hosting environment. The new price for SharePoint Multi-Tenant hosting starts from $7.95/Month for 0.5GB of site storage. For more details please click: New SharePoint Foundation hosting plans

Dedicated SharePoint Hosting Environment

With dedicated SharePoint hosting you get root access to all servers in your SharePoint farm as well as complete access to SharePoint Central Administration. In addition full white label customer branding is also available. For those customers who need to add additional custom software to meet business requirements that exceed the out-of-the-box SharePoint solution, a dedicated hosting environment will work best for you. The new price for dedicated SharePoint hosting starts from $380/Month, more details you can read here: New Dedicated SharePoint 2013 plans

Hi SharePointer!
Today I want to tell you about new and improved PlexHosted PowerPivot 2013 Hosting plans.
You can go ahead and view them here – Improved PowerPivot Hosting 2013 plans, or read about changes in SharePoint PowerPivot plans, inspect and keep in note more attractive prices for PowerPivot hosting after reading.

Hosting PowerPivot 2013 Workbooks in SharePoint

You can work with PowerPivot data with powerful new ways. Easily share PowerPivot 2013 workbooks to the SharePoint site, search, discover, and access data within and outside your organization. Analyze a large amount of data in a few seconds, show reports to your clients or bosses anywhere, and collaborate from anywhere, on any device.

SharePoint Business Intelligence 2013 Improving

So, you want to know about main changes of SharePoint Business Intelligence 2013 Hosting plans. Let`s try to clarify them together.
There are many changes were made to improve PowerPivot Hosting services for PlexHosted clients. Please see the main of them below

PowerPivot Hosting is offering in two environments: Multi-Tenant and Dedicated.

What the difference between these two options? – probably you said.
The answer is pretty simple: with Multi-Tenant solutions you can get access to the root site collection and the price is more acceptable for small companies. And the dedicated PowerPivot servers are more expensive but you can get access to all servers (SharePoint PowerPivot and SQL as well) and install any additional software there.
More detailed PowerPivot 2013 plans comparison you can see hereMulti-tenant vs Dedicated PowerPivot Hosting.

The price for the multi-tenant PowerPivot 2013 hosting has been lowered!